While freaking out about the swine flu and how it could affect hospital maternity services in two months' time, I came across this professional damage to the English language on one of our national online newspapers.
Health officials believed those cases had been contained but advised Samoan's affected not too attend church.
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I got me a shipment from Amazon the other day, of three of Lois McMaster Bujold's Sharing Knife series. They've been out for a while, but I've held off, not sure whether I'd like the switch of genre - it's even more fantasy/romance than the Curse of Chalion books, and the covers look plain old Mills and Boon ( Read more... )

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I'm still enjoying the shiny red coolness of my new laptop, but it has come with an unforeseen challenge or two. Number one is that I didn't properly export all my old Itunes settings off my old computer, so my ratings, playlists and the bit that says "please don't interrupt my music shuffling with chapter XXVII of Ian McKellen reading the Odyssey ( Read more... )

I love this:

With almost no controversial news allowed to appear in martial law ruled Fiji, one newspaper has decided to inject some humour into the situation ... One story it published was headlined “Breakfast as usual”...Another published story reported on a man getting on a bus.
In other news, the laptop has arrived. I'm keeping its packaging ( Read more... )

I'm finally going to get myself a laptop! I've singled out a Dell Studio 15 that has a decent graphics card (I'm not about to take up a Crysis habit, but I would like the odd game of Civ4 without the floating eyeballs effect), but I'm still flailing around on processor speed ( Read more... )

I've either eaten something that's disagreed with me, or I'm growing a little soccer player. It's too soon for me to be sure. But it's a very weird sensation ( Read more... )

The weather forecast predicts a cold snap for the country over the next few days. I'm quite looking forward to it - I always like the feel of snuggling into warmer clothes for the first time after summer ( Read more... )

Painting, or at least supervising the painting, of the back rooms. They've been in various states of decoration since the end of October, and now they're finally done. I think I'll rest for a bit now.


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Well, it's not the right time of year for that sort of resurrection, but the return of the internet at home, after it's been down since the plasterer came 15 days ago, feels like a rebirth of sorts ( Read more... )